Place based strategies

BRUSSELS REGION
To turn environmental challenges into economic opportunities, the regional administration for environment and energy mandated by the Brussels Region government adopted new roles of facilitating and coordinating bottom-up and top-down approaches. Together with agencies in charge of the region’s economic development and other public administrations from the Brussels region it co-elaborated a development concept in which environmental and economic issues are closely connected. Two large programmes have structured the transition: the Employment-Environment Alliance and the Regional Circular Economy Plan.

MALAGA CITY
A multi-actor process of co-creating a blueprint for socioeconomic and environmental development decreasing the high unemployment rate in the Málaga region.

DUBLIN
The variety of experiences, knowledge and social capital of diverse communities can be connected through tools that facilitate collaboration

Integrated project strategies

NEW SPATIAL GOVERNANCE
A TRANSVERSAL APPROACH TO PLANNING AND NEGOTIATING THE CONFLICTING DIMENSIONS OF SUSTAINABILITY

COLLABORATE
SETTING-UP AN (INTER)ACTIVE ARENA TO SHARE RESOURCES AND KNOWLEDGE AMONG LOCAL STAKEHOLDERS

The TURAS project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 282834.